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« on: April 24, 2010, 02:50:36 pm »
Work and stockpile update
Written by Kipi Twisturns at the 15th of Moonstone, year 1051.
The progress with beds is too slow. I know that Tubemine and Pageluster are working as hard as possible, but still he has not mad enough progress. So, I decided to promote Appearmetal as new carpenter to speed up the project. That means another carpentry must be built, or the promotion would be in no use. So, second carpentry has been ordered to be built right next to the first one, near the wood stockpiles.
The engraving of communal dining hall has begun. At this point Gaxkang is working alone on the project, perhaps I could spare someone to help him out. On the other had he has been happy since the engraving project begun, seems like he really enjoys it, and there is no rush to complete it, so perhaps I should just let him work at his own pace alone, and enjoy the work.
I also checked the storages with Urist Imiknorris yesterday to get some better knowledge what we have and what must be produced or traded. The wood supplies are getting low, so I told to Haika to send Hamesell outside to cut some more. Hope he doesn't get any complications from sunlight, I think none of us has been in daylight in many months. In fact, I think the last time any of us stepped outside was when the last immigrant wave came.
It seems that the food supplies have got better. We have lots of meat and enough plants to support both eating and brewing. So no problems in that sector anymore. I told to Urist to keep close eye on those storages, though, and authorized him to speak directly to Haika if the supplies are getting low.
Stones we have more than enough, actually I would be grateful if there weren't so many to litter every corner and room. Well, at least we have material for crafts, furnitures and constructions.
In matter of weaponry, we should have more of them. Right now there is only one axe and couple of picks, and every single one is in use, except one pick. That's not enough to support military, so that will be in to-do list. Same goes for armor, we don't have any.
Fortress development update
Written by Kipi Twisturns at the 22nd of Opal, year 1051.
It has been over a month since my last update, as there has been so many things to be done. First of all, every personal room is now fully furnitured, and the cabinets and coffers I promised earlier has been installed. The only change I made was that if a dwarf who belongs to administration has office pointed out, the cabinet went to the office instead of bedroom. Also, as a sheriff Nuker W got one armor stand and weapon rack.
The smoothing of dining hall has made good enough progress, as it's nearly done. After Gaxkang has smoothed the floors and walls, he starts engraving the smoothed surfaces. After that he moves to do the same to administration rooms, first smoothing then engraving, then barracks and after that hospital. The question wether someone should be promoted to help him out is still under consideration, I have not made any decision in one way or another. I think that is a matter where we can wait and see what time brings to us.
Hamesell has been working to keep the wood coming to supply the carpenters. Unfortunately he has not been able to keep up with all three of them, so time to time I get complanes about running out of wood. Sadly nothing can be done to this matter as we have only one axe in our disposal, so second woodcutter is out of question right now. Carpenters just have to live with the fact that there will be shortages of wood for time to time.
